kənˈsek(y)əd.iv, -ətiv, -əv adjective
Etymology: French consécutif, from Latin consecutus + French -if -ive
1.
a. : following especially in a series : one right after the other often with small intervening intervals : successive , sequent
four consecutive terms in office
the coastal battery scored several consecutive hits
b. : having no interval or break : continuous
the most important cause … has run throughout post-Conquest history like a consecutive thread — G.G.Coulton
a consecutive conversation
2. : proceeding by successive interrelated stages of thought : marked by logical sequence
consecutive premises
a consecutive thinker
3.
a. : expressing result
a consecutive conjunction
— often used of a clause (as that he ran away in “he was so frightened that he ran away”)
b. Semitic grammar : characterized by attachment to an imperfect verb form of a sense that otherwise would belong to the perfect or to a perfect verb form of a sense that otherwise would belong to the imperfect — used of the conjunction meaning “and” that is prefixed to such a verb form or of the verb itself
• con·sec·u·tive·ly adverb
• con·sec·u·tive·ness noun -es